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There was a disease affecting all potato crops in Ireland, so people were starving. This made the irish start migrating to other places.
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Book written by the german philosopher Karl Marx. The book says that an ideal world could be achieved if all humans stopped working for themselves and started to work for the common good.
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Before this process steel was very expensive and har to make. The invetion of this process made it a more accessible material.
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George Bissel drilled successfully for the first time an oil well in Pennsylvania.
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William Seward was the US senator at the time. He bought what is now Alaska from Russia. At the time everyone thought that it was a stupid idea but then they realized how rich in resources the terrain was.
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Law passed all chinese people from entering the US. This was caused mostly by all the racial tension between railroad workers.
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This is the poem written at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Basically what it says is that the US is more than willing to accept european immigrants.
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It started as a riot between chinese immigrants and white immigrants working in the railroad. Mostly chinese were affected.
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Due to industrialism many immmigrants came to the US, after that there were things called "Tenement Houses" that were houses made to foster all these people. Hull House was was one of the first official, big tenement house.
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Was a photography book made by Jacob Riis. The purpose was to raise awareness about the pooor conditions that immigrants lived in at the time.
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Worker riot made in Henry Fick's company to defend their rights.
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Cuba was a US protectorate ,so if they messed with Cuba ,they messed with the US. There was this boat in Cuba and it exploded. The press blamed Spain and that caused the Spanish-American war. Later they discovered that it was caused by a flaw in the boat.
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Philippines was a Spanish colony so the US stepped in to free filipinos. What really happened was that they became part of the US because filipinos were "unable" to rule themselves.
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Poem written by the british poet Rudyard Kipling that talked about how it was white people's "duty" to take care of all those small nations that "couldn't" take care of themselves.
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White farmers overthrow the queen at the time and the ask to be annexed because it would be beneficial for trade.
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Guarantees the US land on cuban soil. Forbids Cuba from making treaties with european countries.
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Theodore Roosevelt stepped in the scene when Panama wanted to gain independence only to build the canal.
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A large group of women that worked in a clothing factory were threatened by a fire. The doors were locked to avoid them from stealing, so they couldn't escape. They decided to jump from the windows to avoid being killed by the flames.
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An attack made by the National Guard directed to strkiking mine workers. Around 1,200 people died.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assasinated and thanks to a series of alliances this is often cited as one of the caused of WWI.
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It was a british boat filled with passengers and ammunition. This helped create the Sussex pledge. Cited as one of the reasons that the US decided to enter the war.
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Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico. It say that if Mexico got in the war Germany would help them get back all the land that the US took from them.
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Peace treaty between Soviet Russia and Allied Powers in exchange of land.
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Treaty that somehow ended WWI. Here they decided what they were going to do now, like deciding what to do with the losers (Germany).
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They couldn't take part of this organization because it was just the time for presidential elections, so they didn' have anyone to make decisions.
